Nature Communications (Oct 2019)
Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands
- A. C. Risch,
- S. Zimmermann,
- R. Ochoa-Hueso,
- M. Schütz,
- B. Frey,
- J. L. Firn,
- P. A. Fay,
- F. Hagedorn,
- E. T. Borer,
- E. W. Seabloom,
- W. S. Harpole,
- J. M. H. Knops,
- R. L. McCulley,
- A. A. D. Broadbent,
- C. J. Stevens,
- M. L. Silveira,
- P. B. Adler,
- S. Báez,
- L. A. Biederman,
- J. M. Blair,
- C. S. Brown,
- M. C. Caldeira,
- S. L. Collins,
- P. Daleo,
- A. di Virgilio,
- A. Ebeling,
- N. Eisenhauer,
- E. Esch,
- A. Eskelinen,
- N. Hagenah,
- Y. Hautier,
- K. P. Kirkman,
- A. S. MacDougall,
- J. L. Moore,
- S. A. Power,
- S. M. Prober,
- C. Roscher,
- M. Sankaran,
- J. Siebert,
- K. L. Speziale,
- P. M. Tognetti,
- R. Virtanen,
- L. Yahdjian,
- B. Moser
Affiliations
- A. C. Risch
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- S. Zimmermann
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- R. Ochoa-Hueso
- Department of Biology, IVAGRO, University of Cádiz, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario (ceiA3), Campus Rio San Pedro
- M. Schütz
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- B. Frey
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- J. L. Firn
- Queensland University of Technology (QUT), School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Science and Engineering Faculty
- P. A. Fay
- USDA-ARS Grassland Soil, and Water Research Laboratory
- F. Hagedorn
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- E. T. Borer
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- E. W. Seabloom
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- W. S. Harpole
- Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research—UFZ
- J. M. H. Knops
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska
- R. L. McCulley
- Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky
- A. A. D. Broadbent
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michael Smith Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road
- C. J. Stevens
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
- M. L. Silveira
- University of Florida, Range Cattle Research and Education Center
- P. B. Adler
- Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University
- S. Báez
- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional del Ecuador
- L. A. Biederman
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
- J. M. Blair
- Division of Biology, Kansas State University
- C. S. Brown
- Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University
- M. C. Caldeira
- Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa
- S. L. Collins
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico
- P. Daleo
- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, CONICET
- A. di Virgilio
- INIBIOMA (CONICET-UNCOMA), Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Grupo de Investigaciones en Biología de la Conservación (GrInBiC) Laboratorio Ecotono, Quintral
- A. Ebeling
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
- N. Eisenhauer
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- E. Esch
- University of California San Diego
- A. Eskelinen
- Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research—UFZ
- N. Hagenah
- Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria
- Y. Hautier
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8
- K. P. Kirkman
- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg
- A. S. MacDougall
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
- J. L. Moore
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
- S. A. Power
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- S. M. Prober
- CSIRO Land and Water
- C. Roscher
- Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research—UFZ
- M. Sankaran
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR
- J. Siebert
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- K. L. Speziale
- INIBIOMA (CONICET-UNCOMA), Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Grupo de Investigaciones en Biología de la Conservación (GrInBiC) Laboratorio Ecotono, Quintral
- P. M. Tognetti
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Agronomía, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET
- R. Virtanen
- Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research—UFZ
- L. Yahdjian
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Agronomía, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET
- B. Moser
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12948-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Nitrogen mineralisation (Nmin), an important index of soil fertility, is often determined in the laboratory, with an uncertain relationship to Nmin under field conditions. Here the authors show that combining laboratory measurements with environmental data greatly improves predictions of field Nmin at a global scale.
